Example sentences of "their [noun] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | and we 'll sort it out ourselves and what they do , if a customer says oh there 's a phone that 's broke , or it 's not working or something like that , they 'll say oh okay we 'll get in touch with the maintenance for you , you see , cos he 's making nowt out of it , if you say we dropped the phone and broke it , well we 'll send a and then they send an engin one of their blokes out with a replacement phone and charge him for a new one , once they say wants some re-programming doing , oh yeah were sending an engineer round and they get , the dealer then gets the money for it so all we get is the flack end of it you know so we , a service contract it 's priced because , low because you know you 're gon na make a bit on moves and changes |
| 2 | ‘ Some savers like term shares where they tie their money up for a set period in return for a limited guarantee regarding the interest , ’ says Willis . |
| 3 | Members of the Company put their money down on a separate basis for a distinct and limited series of enterprises ; profits from the voyage would be divided in proportion to capital invested , but capital as well as dividends could be withdrawn when the enterprises were complete and all the goods brought back had been sold off . |
| 4 | Mr Major and Mr Lamont did not eat their words out of a cavalier regard for the truth and a penchant for duplicity at election times . |
| 5 | " They 're always like that , gassing their heads off in a public shop . |
| 6 | The earless lizards of the southwestern United States have a large , blood-filled sinus in their heads which , when they pop their heads out of a cave , becomes heated by the Sun and can be distributed throughout the body . |
| 7 | On the other hand , poorer residents , in spite of their organisation and activity , could often do very little to press their demands through to a successful policy outcome . |
| 8 | They unloaded their trays on to a table . |
| 9 | Most accountants would be only too happy to go home and put their feet up after a long day at the office . |
| 10 | Many parents are only too eager to hand their child over to a babysitter and enjoy a well-earned night out . |
| 11 | Erm , you , a lot of people now talk as though it 's erm , plain sailing or flying for B Sky B and it 's gon na be er , hunky-dory , whereas Anglia Television have just written their stake down to a prenominal amount because they do n't think it 's gon na make , stand a chance of making a profit before the turn of the millennium . |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah , well , just tell them they got two more days and then they get their boy back in a bag . |
| 13 | They win their parents over with a rose-tinted vision of the world which is decidedly reassuring . |
| 14 | People in her study , she argues , supported their kin out of a mixture of duty and genuine affection , plus feelings of pride , especially a desire to keep a member of one 's own family out of the workhouse ( Roberts , 1984 , pp. 170–2 ) . |
| 15 | They do n't turn their nose up at a job for a lesser mag if their last assignment was for Elle or something . ’ |
| 16 | Many women need extra financial help from the state in order to bring their incomes up to a minimum figure and to help with their rent and rates . |
| 17 | Bob Burtenshaw , realising they must at least silence the ships lying inside the dry-dock , south of the caisson , took several men with him along the wall , firing their pistols down into a tanker undergoing a refit . |
| 18 | Their meeting will probably be nothing more than a courteous request from your boyfriend for your parents ' blessing and approval and it should get their relationship off to a good start ! |
| 19 | Dear God , they 'll pick their things up in a minute and leave me on my tod with that Peaseblossom . |
| 20 | Painting is valuable because people who may have difficulty expressing themselves in words can get some of their feelings down in a picture . |
| 21 | And some bidders are expected to buy 2 tractors , so they can get their collection off to a good start . |
| 22 | WEDGWOOD Cricket Club have hit their rivals for six by getting their season off to a blistering start . |
| 23 | I am a midwife interested in developing a perineal audit system , enabling midwives to follow their suturing up to a year postnatally . |
| 24 | As soon as it bubbles , slip the tomatoes and all their sauce on to a hat dish . |
| 25 | I have a streak of economy in me , even when contemplating how to épater les bourgeois , and recipes that make their sauce out of a stock made at an earlier stage tend to appeal most . |
| 26 | I bet it does n't relate to an actual operation in a general hospital because you 've got so many people wanting their rake off in a private one surely ? |
| 27 | So you could have paid a company five hundred , six hundred pounds , and have no surrender value whatsoever , in the first two years , cos they 'll take their charges out on a twenty year , a twenty five year contract . |
| 28 | The cast are not always as economical with their actions as the miser is with his money , mistaking shouting and flinging their arms about as a substitute for comedy . |
| 29 | In the first quarter only 10 companies in Europe cut their dividends out of a universe of 103 stocks we follow . |
| 30 | ‘ Should I start by saying all the usual , very appropriate things ? ’ he asked lightly as he took their drinks over to a small table near the cavernous fireplace . |